Nothing particularly new there for us hardcore fans, but very interesting to know there was no work on Shenmue III previously. What was Yu doing from release of Shenmue II DC to Shenmue II Xbox? I'm guessing working on Virtua Fighter 4? It's weird but looking back, even after completing Shenmue II on Dreamcast back in December 2001 it seemed like we'd have to wait a while for a third, what with the news of the Dreamcast's death (though that didn't stop me buying an Xbox in the hopes the third would come out for that console...).

Hopefully this interview brings in a few more PayPal backers and buyers of the game

That said, there are a few aspects of the article which makes me more confused than I was before reading it.

Q: "Will arcades comes back"? A: "It will depend on the budget"

I naively thought that arcades were confirmed in S3 but which ones would be back was still unconfirmed?

Then the statements from "Games" about the area of Choubu and Bailu not beeing funded sounds confusing as well.In my understanding, those area will be in S3 but not in their fully "extended" form, at least not without more funding.Can someone confirm their presence... I'm starting to sweat

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Those, who follow the path of a warrior, must be ready to die, in order to stand for one's convictions, live for one's convictions, die for one's convictions. That is how I lived my life.

(either there's a hidden staffer dicking with responses and editing them without indications, or i'm losing my shit?! usually, there's a timestamp AFTER another user posts, and the prior post is edited.)thanks a lot for these.there's no way my scanner can get those results...

one warning was absolutely fair, was over zealous on conviction on a response to a subject. the other one for 'spam' (aka: it was me posting that qualified) which is bogus due to personality clash. why don't who this concerns pull the other guy for destroying my subject, accusing it of SPAM?oh, i get it now, not one of your cliques, and i watched you stand by and and let him trash it, and you did NOTHING but was complicit in your silence, and totally one sided and agree with it by inactions. (you have the temerity to pull me for spam, and yet, you let your lackey cliquey friends shit on my subjects? double-standards, real fuckin professional dude.)at least the other staffer explained where i was wrong, and backed it up clearly in writ.

Kiske wrote: Interesting article (Games) but nothing exclusively new to be honest.

That said, there are a few aspects of the article which makes me more confused than I was before reading it.

Q: "Will arcades comes back"? A: "It will depend on the budget"

I naively thought that arcades were confirmed in S3 but which ones would be back was still unconfirmed?

Then the statements from "Games" about the area of Choubu and Bailu not beeing funded sounds confusing as well.In my understanding, those area will be in S3 but not in their fully "extended" form, at least not without more funding.Can someone confirm their presence... I'm starting to sweat

Arcades aren't confirmed yet.

Choubu and Bailu are in the game (Bailu is where you start off, then I think you go to Choubu and Baisha). They just aren't as fleshed out as they would be if those stretch goals are met. Hopefully we hit a few Choubu stretch goals in the PayPal.